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Vodafone Essar Ltd, a JV of Essar and UK-based Vodafone Group Plc, is India's 2nd largest GSM telephony provider, with over 40 million customers. When Vodafone acquired Hong Kong based Hutchison Whampoa's stake in the erstwhile Hutchison-Essar JV, the company was valued at USD 18.8 billion. Essar has 33% stake in the JV with Vodafone.

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	NEWS :


	Essar acquires strategic stake in Obopay Inc. April 28, 2008
	Aegis to Acquire AOL’s India Call Centre Operations March 31, 2008
	Essar’s Telecom Business in Strategic Tie-up with Econet Wireless January 11, 2008
	Aegis announces yet another acquisition; Set to become a US$ 500 million company in the next two years November 14, 2007

	Business Process Outsourcing

Aegis BPO Services Ltd.

Aegis BPO Services is the business process outsourcing services division of the Essar Group. Aegis is a global leader in the BPO space, specialising in the co-creation of value through the utilisation of partnerships and value innovation for a number of Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies.

It leverages its success with the world’s largest corporations to enable its clients to provide their customers a global customer experience. Aegis uses its management bandwidth and vertical expertise in wide areas spanning telecom, banking and financial services, healthcare, computer hardware and retail to raise the existing industry benchmarks.

Aegis uses state-of-the-art technology to cater to the requirements of clients. This includes using multi-level redundancies afforded by the use of a global MPLS backbone, the best quality equipment and disaster recovery mechanisms.

Aegis has an annual turnover of over $200 million and employs more than 20,000 people worldwide servicing its clients from 24 locations globally. It has been recognised as among the Top 15 BPO/ITES companies in India by NASSCOM and ranked #2 among the players in the domestic market. Additionally, Aegis is a distinguished member of the ATA (American Teleservices Association) in the US.

Visit us at www.aegisbpo.com

	Telecom Retail

Essar Telecom Retail Ltd.

The MobileStore is a chain of retail outlets managed by Essar Telecom Retail Ltd. in association with the Virgin Group. The store chain sells mobile handsets and accessories, as well as digital lifestyle products. Among the services offered are handset repairs and exchanges. More than 2,500 The MobileStore outlets are planned across 600 cities in 3 years.

Visit us at www.themobilestore.in

	Telecom Infrastructure:

Essar Telecom Infrastructure Private Ltd.

Essar Telecom Infrastructure Private Limited (ETIPL) is one of the largest independent telecom infrastructure service provisioning companies in the country. It builds telecom site infrastructure and shares it with multiple telecom operators in India.

ETIPL is currently operational and has set up telecom tower sites, in the Circles of Mumbai, Rest of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chennai, Rest of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, UP (East), UP (West), Bihar & Orissa. It has plans to cover the Rest of India in FY2007-08. ETIPL has an aggressive plan of installing 6000 sites by FY 2007-08 and 20,000 sites over the next 3 years.

ETIPL offers

	Passive telecom infrastructure services for mobile and broadband operators
	Sharing services on cellular sites (GBTs and RTTs)
	In-Building Solutions (IBS)
	RF (Radio Frequency) planning & optimization services for service providers

ETIPL has long-term agreements with multiple Mobile and Broadband Service providers across India. ETIPL is also participating in the prestigious "Project MOST" initiative of COAI. ETIPL has a senior and experienced Project Management Team and has built an efficient Supply Chain Management which has a wide Vendor base to enable quick ramp up of Infrastructure based Projects. ETIPL is committed to provide the highest level of service quality and timely implementation of project using best of breed automated systems and processes. ETIPL being part of ESSAR Group is financially strong and can undertake Telecom Infrastructure projects in India and abroad.

ETIPL strives to be the "Telecom Infrastructure Service Provider of Choice"